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by potatochup 6y ago
As an interesting aside, I recently discovered New Zealand has minimum wage exemptions where productivity is low due to disabilities or other circumstances. https://www.employment.govt.nz/hours-and-wages/pay/minimu
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by potatochup 6y ago
Because of this, some fancier EVs/hybrids have an auto-wipe feature that briefly applies the brakes at low pressure while you are driving to clean the pads.
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by potatochup 6y ago
Well shit. It was a fun few weeks in freedom. Let's see if we do better than the Aussies.
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by potatochup 6y ago
I was on approx 60k eur in Amsterdam a few years ago with 3 years experience
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by potatochup 6y ago
There are various chrome extensions that do it. I used to use Facebook purity, but it ended up being easier to just remove the div using ublock origin
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by potatochup 6y ago
I've found just blocking the news feed to be helpful. I can still do events and messenger without any ads being shown or the addictive feed
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by potatochup 6y ago
Orson Scott Card explores the idea of long sleeps in some of his short stories, with a drug called "somec", and yes, space travel is featured quite a bit. I haven't read them in many years, but I have fond memories of them.
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by potatochup 6y ago
Wife and I moving back to our home town. Although all our friends are in SF, it's miserable working from a small apartment and not being able to see our friends. Our destination happens to be in one the places that is covid free right
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by potatochup 6y ago
Anecdata, but I've put in a high end oven, dishwasher, new shower head, bike rack and more ceiling lights in our rental. The appliances we're cheap as they were second hand, and our deposit is also 1/2 of our monthly rent, so
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by potatochup 6y ago
Yes. Even in non-one-pedal ( eg standard regen braking) you get the brake lights on if the deacceleration is high enough.
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by potatochup 6y ago
According to this, 25% of privately owned firearms are due to previous or active military service. Switzerland also has compulsory military service and you can't carry in public. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/
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by potatochup 6y ago
There are plenty of Japanese cars that have been doing this for decades to reduce the complexity of RHD vs LHD.
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by potatochup 6y ago
Yeah, Shivs work ok. I've run into some stupid issues with the self-extracting directory being have too long path names on Windows and such, so it's not perfect.
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by potatochup 6y ago
Isn't this exactly what tools like SCons and Bazel are supposed to do? Rather than writing your own
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by potatochup 7y ago
Kinda. But then you don't have the right o-ring and the store is closed until Monday. And you mixed up the BSF and UNC threads on your carbs. And the cloth wiring is intermittently shorting out. Computers are nice in some ways.
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by potatochup 7y ago
Bazel?
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by potatochup 7y ago
We use pandas for writing assertions on time series data collected from simulated and real firmeare. Eg: - two signals X and Y should always be within 5% of each other while condition Z is true. - signal A should transition from value M to
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by potatochup 7y ago
In my (limited) exposure of products failing in the field due to whiskers, the mitigations included coating the entire board in some kind of film, and changing layout to make the board less vulnerable in the first place. Probably designers
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by potatochup 7y ago
Until they start bribing the FAA to certify their unsafe planes
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by potatochup 7y ago
I work in the embedded space, but the majority of my work is writing simuators, mathematical models and tests. One of the hidden benefits for us was that rust is suitable for both resource-constrained embedded code (we use a lot of C for th
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by potatochup 7y ago
It still might be needed for external dependencies. the code an organization writes might be in one repo, but if you want to bring in some other library, like libssl (assuming there is no better package manager for your language) submodules
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by potatochup 7y ago
Shivs as mentioned elsewhere, pyoxidize is also worth a look
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by potatochup 7y ago
While in theory there could be a lot more competition for arm based compute platforms, is there any risk of the cloud providers adding custom extensions to their silicon to increase performing, creating yet another platform lock-in? I'
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by potatochup 7y ago
Regular CFLs (and maybe other types) can already cause significant issues to gsm spectrums if their transformers deteriorate the wrong way, so I'd imagine there is plenty of potential for emissions out of the 2.4ghz band.
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by potatochup 7y ago
Mattermost is a self hosted clone, zulip is an option too although it's not a direct copy. We've also used discord and MS teams
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by potatochup 7y ago
Annoying for diffing probably?
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by potatochup 7y ago
*Safer for occupants only. More dangerous for everyone else on the road.
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by potatochup 8y ago
I feel like that about America in general. Sales Tax is never included, or they display the price assuming a auto pay discount or some other such 'discount'. Don't get me started on tipping.
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by potatochup 8y ago
Given that they just laid off 7% of their employees due to cost measures I'd say likely not. They're just not longer subsidizing it for owners because they don't need so much of a draw card.